Whats The Best 2nd Proffesion

please tell me what the best 2nd prof for every char is and please do it like this


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R/
W/
MO/
RT/
A/
N/
ELE/
MES/
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happy posting

There is not the best secondary profession for every primary profession. I think you have missed the point if you think otherwise.

R/Me
W/Me
Mo/Me
Rt/Me
A/Me
N/Me
E/Me
Me/Me...wait that doesnt work =(

okay, i think you get my point. yes, i do love /Me, lol. but as the Zakarr said, there is no 'best' secondary. it depends on the situation.

- where you are
- what you are playing as
- if you are farming
- if you are running
- etc, etc

there, for my personal taste, is only one primary class that has a best secondary..being Mo/Me. /Me for monk is probably the best you can do, no matter if you smite, heal, prot, or whatever else. hell, its even good for farming. its personal preferance..you should browse guildwiki.org and check out some possible secondarys with your primary one, read what you can do with which, and then select what youd like best. (< whatever you do, dont start flaming me, its my own personal opinion..just that in advance =P)

eventually, you WILL change your secondary, and that wont be once only. for everyone situation, there probably is something thats better than the other.

if you cant decide..use your primary one only, simple. pick the second one just so you got it.

It is up to you. You can play what everybody does, or play what you like most. What do you think?

ok fine what i really want to know is which is better for a monk i was thinking a ME or a Rit or a Necro

/me is one of the worst. 2nd only to assassin. I would say that /mo is probley the best all around. I have changed my secondray on only 2 of my 5 characters. and that was to /mo. I had e/me went to e/mo and I had a r/n and went to r/mo. The other 3 are w/mo, n/mo and rit/r

Mesmer has good energy management. If I was a monk, I would pick that one.

/Me or /Ne, I prefer /Ne usually

but theres is no BEST secondary cuz theres alot of diffrent powreful builds

I always change whenever I do something, Such as if i am pvping i will change to w/n if im farming griffons or running w/mo if im farming beach in fow w/me .. those are my three favorite for warrior but there is endless combinations, like as a w/E you could use earth protection spells to make yourself very tough armour wise. you cant go wrong with /mo but /me is always good too.

Honestly, it really depends.

/Me is amazing. It provides energy management, hex removal, and other useful supports. Even warriors benefit from Mesmer skills. Also, some mesmer skills are very useful without points in anything. Arcan Echo and Echo come to mind.

/Mo is useful for the hard res, if nothing else. Useually abused and used badly, but when used well, it's nice : )

/W is...wait...I've never used it. First ting that comes to mind is Mo/W using Bonetti's for e-management.

/Ne is good for degen, some support, and er... I used a wierd Mo/N combo before in the start of the game, then changed. I'm sure there's some sort of spike option between blood and smiting or something. /Ne works well on Rits for an obvious combo. I use /Ne useually on my mezzy.

/Rt I haven't tried yet, I just use the primary. Seems like the loss of Spawning would hamper the charcter. Maybe good for some weapon buffs? Barrage-Splinter or something.

/R is nice for Serpent's Quickness, Tiger's Fury, and whatnot. Useful for most situations.

/A haven't touched primary or secondary yet, so I can't say. I know E/A was a popular combo in the beta.

/E Useually used for glyphs. They're useful. Also, can provide decent support. Me/E Air Spike is popular.

And now to adress the prompt.

R/Mo for the res, R/E for damage
W/E (shock warrior anyone?)
Mo/Me (energy management ftw)
Rt/N (damage) or Rt/Mo (attuned healer is nice)
A/ ?
N/Me (Degen Lord)
ELE/Me (echo-nuke, anti-interrupt)
Mes/N (punish) Mes/mo (hard res, you don't need a secondary to surge)

In order to have a BALANCED game, there should not be better profession combos. If there were better combos, everyone would play those and there would be no variety in the game. It would become dull and Anet would lose customers/gamers. Nobody wants to play a stale MMORPG, or CORPG for that matter. GW would not have survived if there were better combos. There ARE better combos for different areas in terms of PvE. And it also depends on the player. /Mo isn't necessary for Warriors, but it's what a majority of Warriors choose.

I tend to take the /Mo simply for the perma rez, which tends to be the only mo skill on my bar. but now /Rit offers that I've started taking that as a secondary.

Only my Warrior is /R secondary, as i didnt wanna be a wammo

grr i hate this question
but i am going to answer it

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R/W,R/MO,R/RT,R/A,R/N,R/ELE,R/MES
W/R,W/MO,W/RT,W/A,W/N,W/ELE,W/MES
MO/R,MO/W,MO/RT,MO/A,MO/N,MO/ELE,MO/MES
RT/R,RT/W,RT/MO,RT/A,RT/N,RT/ELE,RT/MES
A/R,A/W.A/MO,A/RT,A/N,A/ELE,A/MES
N/R,N/W,N/MO,N/RT,N/A,N/E,N/MES
ELE/R,ELE/W,ELE/MO,ELE/RT,ELE/A,ELE/N,ELE/MES
MES/R,MES/W,MES/MO,MES/RT,MES/A,MES/N,MES/E
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theres your answer

Edit:
personally i hope i never hear this question ever,ever,ever,ever, again.
as many people have alrdy said Guild wars is a balenced game and there are no better combos of proffesions, just diffrent build on which to use them.

it depends on what you trying to do.. I find myself swapping regularly depending where Im playing..

R/Me
W/Mo
Mo/Me
Rt/Mo
A/W?
N/Me
Ele/Me
Me/N

Just my opinions.. I feel that all of these secondaries seem to fair pretty well in PVP and PVE. They're not perfect, but not horrible either. It all depends on the situation and what kind of enemies you are fighting against. If you don't have the money to buy skills for every proffession I would suggest these because all-around they are pretty decent.

emo!!!!

sorry couldnt resist...

W/Mo
R/W
E/W
N/W
Mo/W
Rt/W
A/W
Me/W

Warriors needs to heal itself because newbie monk players, and all classes need them good stances that warriors has.

I like to open up all secondaries for all of my primary professions. This allows the greatest versatility depending on the type of battle I plan to face.


No, Warriors with your mentality need more healing than one monk can possibly provide.

...and lose out on all the other fantastic possible combinations?

If W/X or X/W was the absolute best, Then the top guilds in the ladder need to know they are making huge mistakes in their profession choices. Would you care to let them know?

dang this threads kinda hitting it off just to let yall know i did chose necromancer but i am thinking of changing it to mes also i saw a warrior with like 254 energy how is that i mean god

How can you say it's one of the worst (mesmer)? W/Me's are good at many things, Mo/Me's are great, E/Me's are great..Ever heard of echo nuking? And /mo is not the best. Far from it. I mainly use E/Mo when I'm solo farming, but even sometimes I don't use it. Kthxbai.

You need to find a purpose for the secondary and use it. There really is no wrong secondary, unless your trying to be a full fledged monk as a Warrior primary.

I've run into plenty of odd builds that worked extremly well, and I've also used some odd skills from the secondary that worked extremely well. Playing my assassin in AB or Aspenwood my biggest problems for a while were minion masters, I ran with veretas gaze+aura for a while and it worked wonders. Would pop gaze on the golem, when they used aura (if they had it at all) I would shadowstep to them and hit aura. Now an assassin alone can be pretty nasty, but not only did I just essentially shutdown that MM for the time being, but I've also gotten myself a small army for the time being (and whether or not I lived unless someone else had vereta's aura the minions would still cause some havok).

Basically the best way to do it, just go to a priest of balthazar and look through the skill descriptions until an idea pops into your head. The two problems with this though: You always end up being 1 slot short of what would be the omgwtfpwnzor of builds, and You after a while run out of skill points, which is just annoying as anything.

Just the main thing to remember is if what you come up with isn't fun just go back to the drawing board.

I've done that ;o except it was usually that I went pure smite and used a staff with glads armor...I did heal once when my ice caves group was really desperate.